TABLE 4.
Means of the agreement regarding statements by all the consumers and those classified according to their answers to habits and experience questions.
| Statements | Total mean | SEM | 1 Unpleasant experience | 2 Read information | 3 Pork product perception | 4 Trimming fat | 5 Fiber consumer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||
| Animal concern | ||||||||||||
| Animal welfare worries me | 7.5 | 0.141 | 7 | 7.6 | 7.9a | 7.2b | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.8a | 7b | 7.6 | 7.4 |
| I know that sometimes male pigs intended for consumption are castrated without anaesthesia at birth | 3.0 | 0.242 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 3 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| I think castration of pigs without anaesthesia should not be performed | 7.6 | 0.231 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 8 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 7.7 |
| The castration of pigs is justified because it improves the smell and flavour of the meat | 4.2 | 0.272 | 5.6 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| I believe that meat from castrated pigs should be labelled as such | 7.4 | 0.206 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 8a | 6.8b | 7.2 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 7.6 |
| Fat perception | ||||||||||||
| A high fat content in a meat product is negative for me | 7.1 | 0.189 | 6.7 | 7.1 | 7 | 7.2 | 7 | 7.5 | 7.6a | 5.7b | 7.1 | 7.1 |
Note: Different superscripts (a; b) indicate significant differences (p < .05) between consumers' classification within habit or experience after applying the Krustal–Wallis test for independent samples. Scores from 1: ‘not at all agree’ to 9: ‘completely agree’.